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It shouldn't require a login passwor; the user is called "mint" and is passwordless, but it should just get you into the desktop. The ISO you grabbed is most likely corrupted or the disk is wrongly burned. Did you check the md5sum before burining it? Also, at which speed did you bur the disk?

I don't think it is a problem with a corrupt file, or a Bad Burn. But, I'm going to find out. I have a few other Laptops, and a Desktopthat I can try the DVD's on so you have more information from the same DVD. That should give you a clue.

Monsta,I think I have a scenario that will allow you to duplicate the problem. At least I duplicated the problem.......

1. Burn a DVD-RW of LMDE - Mate, and boot it. Hopefully it will come up to the Desktop.2. Blank (Erase) the DVD-RW3. Burn the DVD-RW of LMDE - XFCE, and boot it. It will come up to the Login Screen.

At this point you can enter the Login of "mint" and Password of "Carriage Return" (without the QUOTES)ORSelect USA ENGLISH, XFCE as DEFAULT Desktop, and then SESSION is REBOOT.

XFCE will start and the XFCE Desktop will be displayed, without using the Login & Password.

Now, I actually did this in REVERSE the first time, because I started with XFCE, and then when I burned LMDE - Matethe problem popped up. It shouldn't make any difference as to which Version is Burned to DVD first, as the problemis easily duplicated.

If folks only burn and test one Version, they will not likely see the problem...........

I repeated the Blank/Burn process again, and LMDE - Mate booted properly. So it's something to do with changing LMDEVersions (Mate to XFCE......or XFCE to Mate), and booting a different version than was previously executed.............if that makes any sense........

@everybody: Thanks for the feedback regarding the auto-login. At first, we though these were isolated cases of corrupted ISO downloads or badly burnt DVDs, but it looks like there’s an issue with the display manager. MDM worked well in all our tests, both in Virtualbox and real systems. However, many of you reported that the live system failed to automatically log you in. It was also reported that switching from MATE to Cinnamon in the liveDVD required the user to know the live username and password. We added this information in the release notes and the announcement above. We’ll also investigate why MDM fails to perform the automatic login on some systems.

@everybody: Thanks for the feedback regarding the auto-login. At first, we though these were isolated cases of corrupted ISO downloads or badly burnt DVDs, but it looks like there’s an issue with the display manager. MDM worked well in all our tests, both in Virtualbox and real systems. However, many of you reported that the live system failed to automatically log you in. It was also reported that switching from MATE to Cinnamon in the liveDVD required the user to know the live username and password. We added this information in the release notes and the announcement above. We’ll also investigate why MDM fails to perform the automatic login on some systems.

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1979#comment-62988

Thanks for that. Knew I had a good download and disk. Had to boot back in to my production OS to find the user and password.

I am sorry but I have paid little attention to how you report on things in LMDE so I thought I would post this here and if anyone thinks it important they can move it where it belongs or tell me to do so.

This time when booting the Live DVD it started the same as last.

The black screen with large white font (first screen) was fine.

Second screen, black with small white font had an index file card sized and shaped white background upper right corner. Font was black inside the box so it was readable. When extended beyond box went to white font so it was readable. When it got lower than the box it was all normal white on black.

Probably due to my crappy video card.

Things went different after that.

Got some error message that MDM was confused in some way and just hit the yes button. Got an error that display number one had not worked. Hit the button.

Ummm.... Didn't know this was a known bug. I'm glad that the ISO wasn't corrupted but I always go to the "Bad Iso Image" scenario when something is wrong with a LiveCD. I usually tell people to test them and make sure everything is fine and if that clears out then I look for another solution. I have known cases of really bad ISO images that cause systems to act weirdly so that's why I always think of it as the first possible scenario.

I'm having the same results as the previous user.mint/no password seems to do the trick.

I had to reinstall my OS because my root partition which is set to 25gigs is full. I've worked an hour with help from other users who posted online. Many people seem to be experiencing run-away root partitions (size). I wish I had a more eloquent solution.

I have the exact same problem. Unbelievable that they burned an image that required a login, then never told anyone what the log in was.

I got so fed up, downloaded Mint Maya, and found that it would not let me install because it didn't know what the root partions was, and told me to set it in the partition manager, but then wouldn't let me do anything, it just keeps giving me that message. I'm beginning to wonder if 4th graders aren't running the Linux Mint project.